American Flygirl: The Pathbreaking Life of World War II Pilot Hazel Ying Lee

During World War II, pathbreaker and patriot Hazel Ying Lee, a young Chinese-American woman who had already broken stereotypes as a commercial pilot in China, made history as the first Asian-American woman to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots, also known as the WASPs. Repeatedly dismissed for both her gender and ethnicity, Lee refused to be held back, insisting on fighting—and ultimately giving her life—following her dream of flying. In discussion with historian K. Scott Wong, biographer Susan Tate Ankeny takes us into the cockpit with this unsung American hero.

Susan Tate Ankeny is a former teacher and the author of American Flygirl and The Girl and the Bombardier: A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France. K. Scott Wong (moderator) is the Charles R. Keller Professor of History at Williams College and the author or editor of multiple volumes on Asian-American history, including Asian America: A Primary Source Reader.

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